DEBATE ABOUT BRUNO TAUT, JAPANESE SACRED SYMBOLS AND APE ARCHITECTS

The art historian's architectural theory is at the end of its wit's

Report on indications of an educational emergency case at the Institute
for the History of Art, Tuebingen, Germany.

The following text presents a fierce debate between an art historian
and and anthropologist. It was provoked by the art historian's attempt
to integrate the latter's concept of 'architectural anthropology' into
the Eurocentric views of the history of art. Evidently the two hats are
of a very different size. In order to get the big hat under the small one
Regine Prange, art historian at the 'Institute for the History of Art'
at the University of Tuebingen, simply cuts the big hat to pieces and thus
manages to get the scraps under her small hat. Of course the producer of
the bigger hat does not like this. His rather fierce answer is mainly due
to his suspicion that the results of his research are purpously manipulated.
In this context, the critical report gives very valuable insights into
common mechanisms of manipulation in the field of the humanities.